Deploying Production Systems on Raspberry Pi: Lessons from the Field These are the things I wish I had known before deploying Pis in production. SD Cards Will Kill You The first production Pi I deployed used a generic microSD card. It failed after four months. The second one used a "name brand" card. It failed after six months. The pattern remained always the same: the filesystem corrupts during a power loss, the Pi boots into read-only mode, and whatever the system was supposed to be doing sile